The daytime was pretty much the same with Michelle working and Mitch following his routine. Michelle's trainings were very productive yet time consuming, and she was realizing that her time in the office was going to fly by! The Australian work environment is very similar to the U.S., whereas the Thai and Malaysian offices had more differences. ...

Early morning walk or laze around the camp ? Because we loved the area so much we opted for a 2 hour return walk into the Wilpena pound then we head off stopping at Hawker to look at Jeff Chambers??.... Panorama artworks . Then onwards through Gawler arriving in Adelaide at peek hour What a hassle for our tour director Jeff !!! We all go our sep...

We flew into Sydney but decided that we would get an internal flight to Adelaide later that day. We had a rough idea of a route for while we were in Australia. The plan was to travel northwards from Sydney along the east coast to Cairns. Elly's aunt and uncle, Lyn and Peter, live in Adelaide and she really wanted to visit them. We also wanted to...

Today was all about driving - some 600 km - and I was stopped for speeding - 11 kms/hr over the speed limit. The officer recognized I was a tourist and let me off. We passed through agricultural land (Black Angus Beef), saw a huge wind farm, forestry plantations, logging trucks and mills, damn near desert (except for where it's irrigated) and de...

Adelaide is blessed with hills nearby rich with soil ideal for viticulture. Vines were first planted in the Clare Valley by Irishmen (from County Clare) for the production of communion wine, but the quality was too fine to be kept only for the church. The area is now famed for its intense Shirazs, Cabernet Sauvignons and refreshing Rieslings. A ...

The first thing that happened when we left Parachilna was that we saw a huge lizard on the road. Then we went to see some Aboriginal rock art and then had a walk in Alligator gorge. There is a drought on so there was no water in it, but I still managed to slip and bash me knee. The afternoon was spent on the bus. The harshness of the outback gra...

Day 1 Having demolished some bacon sandwiches and a cup of coffee we were ready to get on the road and get to Adelaide as soon as possible. The route took us through Port Augusta, but with our 'Rough Guide' suggesting there was little to do there we only stopped for diesel before continuing through the increasingly 'English' countryside to the c...

The only reason we were coming to Adelaide in the first place was to see U2 playing, and they have abviously cancelled. We booked the flights months back and couldn't change them so we just tried to make the most of it. Our taxi driver gave us a pretty dismal introduction to the city telling us how awful it was and how it just brings everyone do...

This morning we took a trip underground to visit Naracoort Caves and view the stalagites and stalagamites and fossils dating back hundreds of thousands of years. And to make the most of the free wine we have a brunch of a red wine at Stonehaven winery before heading on towards Adelaide. While driving the very long, very straight and very empty r...

We arrived in Adelaide, bag over one shoulder, bike under the other, not knowing where to go or how to get there! The flight had deflated the bike tyres and the bikes were too big to get into the back of a taxi... d'oh! We finally came across a bus that could take us to the centre of town where we stayed in a shabby hostel, which may have been t...